Facts about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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7 years ago

May 26, 2019

Facts about the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial

* The 200-foot V-shaped wall contains 144 panels.

* As of May 2018, there were 58,320 names, most in chronological order by date of their casualty.

* The official number of deaths in Vietnam is 58,220. Some names were erroneously included, but other names have been added.

* The wall has names of eight women nurses.

* The names of Missing in Action soldiers are on the wall, marked by a plus sign. If any are found alive, the plus will be turned into a diamond.

* The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund raised $8.4 million entirely from 275,000 individual people and organizations. No federal funds were used.

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